How to Add External Storage Volume
- create a blob container in a storage account (wusmprodstoragemain)
- create as private
- inherits permissions
- inherits network settings
- create a folder
- click on schema
- create volume
- choose external volume
- create external location
- copy abfss url for new folder
- give the location a name
- ADLS storage
- paste in the url
- select the storage credential, select the managed identity
- click create
- copy name
- select schema
- create new volume
- select external location
- click create
- Test read and write
- should inherit permissions of the schema
- change owner to appropriate user or ADB SP
Question
- should we use cli to do this in a repeatable way
- maybe create some notebooks or scripts to manage these types of things
How to Create a New Catalog
- Go to Catalog and click create catalog
- Select location
Updated on August 7, 2025